Table of Contents
- Know Yourself
- Stop Trying to be Something You’re not
- Stop Seeking Approval from People before You Take Life Decisions
- Don’t Go Along with Every Advice You Get
- Invest in Yourself
- Know what is Valuable and what is not
- Accept the Consequences of Your Actions
- Stop Making Excuses for Your Mess
- Never Accept Failure as the Possibility
- Stop Worrying about what Other People Think of You
Being free goes way beyond not being in jail or not being under colonization. It goes deeper into our psychological reasoning and other aspects of life. Are you financially free or societal pressure-free? Do you have personal freedom? If your answer to any of these questions is no or you aren’t sure, why don’t you join me today and discover ways in which you can help yourself achieve personal freedom.
Sometimes, the chains aren’t physical; they are psychological. Break free today.
Know Yourself
This is the beginning of personal freedom. You can never be truly free if you don’t know who you are. Understanding yourself through self-examination will help you understand why you make specific decisions, exhibit those habits, and make those mistakes.
Engage in self-evaluation to know your strengths and weaknesses and how to use them to your advantage. This is the hardest part of personal freedom, and most people don’t discover themselves until it’s too late – hence leading to frustration and depression. It is important to understand your body, what works for you, and what doesn’t.
Stop Trying to be Something You’re not
In a world where the media glamorizes high living, you find most people trying to belong in places that don’t fit them. Stop doing things so other people can see how far you’ve gone when deep down, you know neither of those acts defines who you really are.
Such mentality and actions are evidence; that you are not free; you’re a slave to the expectations of the society.
Learn to be yourself, have one personality, let people know who you are, no matter the circumstance they find you in. By living your life like this, you won’t feel the need to hide behind a false personality – making you a free man indeed.
Stop Seeking Approval from People before You Take Life Decisions
Being free is more than not being in jail or not being an actual slave, it’s also about being free from certain mental cages. The key to personal freedom is to stop seeking approval from a particular person before you make a big decision that will change your life.
Sometimes we can be so unsure of the step to take, especially when it’s a life-changing one but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make the big move. Waiting for someone to tell you, “go” before making an important decision is like a dog wait for its owner to signal it to eat its food.
If it’s the right thing to do and you can feel it then go for it. Seeking approval every time will put you in the hands of various people, and you will never take a big step yourself.
Don’t Go Along with Every Advice You Get
No matter who they are to you, always have it at the back of your mind that they can make mistakes. Listen well, but not every advice should be taken. Sometimes the person giving you the advice may have little knowledge of the subject or be looking at it from the wrong angle. Don’t let terrible advice stop you from doing the right thing.
Invest in Yourself
Invest in yourself by not just learning new things but also learning useful things that will help shape you into that person you want to become. Take relevant courses and add to your portfolio. Make yourself more valuable to society by gaining knowledge which will enable you to solve problems. Read books, develop yourself daily, workout, and look good.
Know what is Valuable and what is not
Knowing what’s relevant and what’s not will help you make the right decisions and save you from financial slavery. Being free also goes down to having little or no debts. Most people are in financial bondage due to the poor decisions they made in the past regarding expenses.
Know the difference from what you need from what you want, what has value, and what doesn’t. This knowledge will stop you from buying things you don’t need and incurring unnecessary debts.
Accept the Consequences of Your Actions
Stop blaming your family or the government for making you not achieve your goal. Learn to accept the results of your actions boldly rather than laying blames around. By doing this, you become a better and more responsible person. You will work harder and be more cautious not to make the same mistakes again.
Stop Making Excuses for Your Mess
Excuses are compensations we give ourselves for bad outcomes caused by us. A free man is one who is not afraid to admit he/she is at fault. Giving silly excuses encourages laziness and bad habits. People begin to see you as irresponsible and unreliable. Excuses equal procrastination, which leads to unproductivity. Desist from them.
Never Accept Failure as the Possibility
In life, there will times you will be faced with the most difficult challenges ever, and at this moments, one way of freeing yourself from fear or depression is not to accept failure as an outcome.
Work hard and smart and hope for the best. Sometimes you can accept defeat even before it hits you, the effect is you’ll lack the courage to get back on your feet. Whatever you are going through always remember failure is not the end of the road, it’s the stepping stone to your final destination.
Stop Worrying about what Other People Think of You
This has led most people to make a rash decision that jeopardized their lives. What will they say? What will they think of me? How will they see me? You keep questioning yourself of how the world will accept you.
People will always talk no matter how good you are or how much you’ve achieved. You’ll find yourself making decisions for other people rather than yourself, which is far from being free.
Resist peer pressure and societal pressure by doing what you want to do regardless of what the crowd will say. Explain how personal enslavement has affected your life and career? Now apply these steps and tell us if you see any improvements. Also, if you want follow-up tips and motivations to guide you through life, feel free to let us know, and we will be glad to help.